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Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost (Album) by Shpongle

Artist Biography For Shpongle

Shpongle Is A Psychedelic Electronic Music Project From England That Formed In 1996. The Group Includes Simon Posford A.K.A. Hallucinogen And Raja Ram One Of Three In The Infinity Project . The Duo Are Considered To Be One Of The Progenitors Of The Psybient Genre - A Genre Combining World Music With Psychedelic Trance And Ambient. Their Musical Style Combines Traditional Music From All Over The Globe And Vocals With Contemporary Western Synthesizer-Based Psychedelic Music. When Asked To Describe Shpongle's Music Posford Has Responded That It Is "like Nothing You've Ever Heard Before." Shpongle's First Track "Vapour Rumours" Was Released On TIP Records' Infinite Excursions Compilation In 1996. Their Debut Album Are You Shpongled? Was Released In 1998 On Twisted Records. On 9 September 2014 Posford Confirmed Beginning Work On A Sixth Album Which Was Eventually Announced As Codex VI And Set For Release In October 2017. On 3 October Even Before The Release Of Codex VI The Duo Announced Via A Facebook Video That They Have Begun Working On Their Seventh Studio Album. Posford Is Generally Responsible For The Synthesizers Studio Work And Live Instrumentation While Raja Ram Contributes Broad Musical Concepts And Flute Arrangements. Raja Ram Stated In An Interview That "Shpongle" Is An Umbrella Term For Feeling Positive And Euphoric Emotions. Shpongle's Music Is Heavily Influenced By Psychedelic Experiences And Frequently Makes Use Of Sonic Textures That Approximate Psychedelic States As Well As Vocal Samples Relating To Consciousness Expansion Hallucinations And Altered States Of Awareness. For Example The Track "A New Way To Say 'Hooray'" Contains A Vocal Sample Of Terence McKenna Describing The Effects Of DMT.

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Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost Is A 2005 Album By Shpongle. It Is The Project's Third And Was Announced As Their Last Studio Album Though The Duo Later Decided To Make A Fourth After All . Like The Previous Two Albums It Features Many Live Musicians And Vocalists In Combination With Computer-Generated Sounds And Spoken-Word Samples. Stylistically The Album Can Be Described As A Fusion Of World Music "intelligent Dance Music" And Psychedelic Trance. It Is Dedicated To The Memory Of Author And Psychedelic Researcher Terence McKenna Whose Voice And Ideas Are Used Throughout The Album. All The Songs Are Actually Linked Together So The Whole Album Is Just A Continuous Flow Of Different Music That Connects With Each Other If The Album Is Played From Beginning To End The Listener Can Hear That All The Songs Follow One Another With No Break In The Middle. Miscellanea *According To Simon Posford The Album Actually Has 8 Tracks Divided Into 20 Parts. Each Part Symbolizes A Phase In The Dream Sequence.*The First Track Off The Album "Botanical Dimensions" Samples From The Richard Linklater Film Waking Life.*Botanical Dimensions Is Also The Name Of Terence McKenna's Ethnobotanical Preserve In Hawaii.*"The Nebbish Route" Song Samples Ned Flanders From The Simpsons Episode "El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer The Mysterious Voyage Of Homer ".*"Levitation Nation" Samples A 2003 Portuguese Song By The Brazilian Samba School Beija-Flor De Nilópolis.*The Title For "Nothing Lasts" Comes From The Philosophical Poetry Of William Blake - All Flows.

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